Public bodies involved in arts, culture and heritage should support placemaking by returning cultural heritage items to their original home, says Stephen Welsh.
You’d be hard pressed these days to find a lifestyle magazine, social media platform or Sunday supplement that doesn’t devote a sizeable chunk of its content to the increasingly popular staycation phenomenon. Unable to travel abroad due to COVID-19 restrictions, Britons have embraced the staycation in unprecedented numbers, the like of which haven’t been seen since the advent of the package holiday over half a century ago.
For me this wasn’t as seemingly novel as it appeared to be to many online influencers. Growing up in a working-class family of six during the 80s and early 90s, we only ever holidayed in Cornwall, the Lake District or Wales. Every summer we’d cram ourselves and our luggage into a car and leave our semi-detached in Skelmersdale behind for a week. This was much more intrepid than it sounds – remember these were the days before Google Maps – and finding ourselves perched on Cornish cliff top roads with a trailer tent in tow certainly got the adrenaline pumping. So I was hoping for something a little more serene when I headed off with my husband and dog on our campervan staycation to Northumberland in 2020, with Lindisfarne set firmly in our sights... Keep reading on The State of The Arts.
You’d be hard pressed these days to find a lifestyle magazine, social media platform or Sunday supplement that doesn’t devote a sizeable chunk of its content to the increasingly popular staycation phenomenon. Unable to travel abroad due to COVID-19 restrictions, Britons have embraced the staycation in unprecedented numbers, the like of which haven’t been seen since the advent of the package holiday over half a century ago.
For me this wasn’t as seemingly novel as it appeared to be to many online influencers. Growing up in a working-class family of six during the 80s and early 90s, we only ever holidayed in Cornwall, the Lake District or Wales. Every summer we’d cram ourselves and our luggage into a car and leave our semi-detached in Skelmersdale behind for a week. This was much more intrepid than it sounds – remember these were the days before Google Maps – and finding ourselves perched on Cornish cliff top roads with a trailer tent in tow certainly got the adrenaline pumping. So I was hoping for something a little more serene when I headed off with my husband and dog on our campervan staycation to Northumberland in 2020, with Lindisfarne set firmly in our sights... Keep reading on The State of The Arts.